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g that's good that's that's

enough I warmly welcome you to the

conference event, join me in

warmly welcoming the

future Prime

Ministers from the East the DR

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and

top candidates under the goal cannot be to become

part of this cartel

party system,

we must not become a cartel party

that comments disgruntledly on every single step

towards the dissolution of the nation states

and in the end attracts the votes of

dissatisfied voters

But

such a cartel party

already exists, it is said that I can clearly

remember this conference in Leipzig, it

was in 2017, everything was still in

flux, every party has different

phases and the AFD was still in an

undecided phase My name is Ben

de Kaiser, I am a political scientist

and author and have, among other things, written the book

solidarity patriotism and

a man called börn höcke appeared in Leipzig that day and

announced what he planned to do, namely to

prevent the AFD from becoming a

variant of the cartel it must

remain an alternative to this cartel,

dear friends, we are faced with a cartel-like

organized establishment

whose policy, despite all the

concealment, is aimed at the United

States of Europe and thus at

the end of national self-determination

through subordination to supernational entities, above

all the EU has this and

then The whole thing was actually

waiting for Höcke to

come on stage and then he

made the announcement there, which actually now 7

years later has no relevance

because even today it's

still about preventing with Börn Höcke

and with many others on his Side

that this party

is catellizing itself, that I myself am

melonizing myself, as people are now

saying, we have to prevent that and

yes, Höcke warned about these developments in Leipzig 7 years

before the conditions we find today,

I think they also warned on that day

seen that the AFD is about more

than just criticism of the euro, criticism of the

ECB, criticism of some

rescue packages that we have all long since

forgotten or

have pushed aside. Höcke showed that day that

the AFD is becoming a people's party.

Höcke showed that the AFD must be a

social-patriotic or solidarity-

patriotic force if it

really wants to embody an alternative to the false

whole

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b the party conference of the AFD the AFD elects a

candidate for the European election in Wdeburg

next, even if everything within the party

appears to be pacified The

question of how powerful the camp around the

Turkish state leader Börn Höcke

really is, critics see this as the

AFD has chosen its

top European candidate Maximilian K in Magdeburg.

The Dresner lawyer is considered a close

confidant of the Thuringian

right-winger Björn Höcke. In the east,

the AFD has just under 30%.

Some people are taking this tailwind with them to the

election meeting, we look to

Thuringia where the AFD has a

whopping 34%. How are the other

parties supposed to be able to lead a stable government without Björn Höcke?

The 2024 state elections are already casting their

shadows, for example

inell Höcke today I'm running for the federal executive board

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that

implements everything here in this country more

people

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I would like to close this point

first and say the word to

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or I can only join in with the

assessment of

for me It is very important

to note that when I

am asked why the AFD is successful and also

successful in Thuringia,

I always tell the journalists about my

observation that the Latvians, I think, three

months earlier were around 4% and then

this meteoric rise to 10%

10 .6% then

even in the state election, that was

of course an enormous positive

surprise for us. My name is

Stefan Möller, I have been a member since 2013

and the state spokesman for the AFD Thuringia

I worked in the energy industry

and saw what nonsense

happened with the wind energy policy.

Of course, I also found Euro policy to be a catastrophe back then. I

also

thought back then that we

had an identity problem in Germany, so

today hardly anyone can

remember that back then also

played a role and when the AFD

presented a kind of ten point yes program in the summer of 2013, I was able to

tick each of these points,

so it all

spoke to me and that was the reason why

I said go for it

Because I had no experience with

parties, I simply

submitted my party application online, I mean,

I did it online and

then I

got my membership card relatively quickly and then I just

marched with it to the next regulars' table, but that was just the way it was

Initial phase where there was an incredible amount of dynamism

not only in society

but also in the party.

During the elections, the party pretty much gnawed away at the

other parties' energy reserves when I cannibalized

it. Now hearts are sweeping from

all political sides,

from the right and from the left, but there is

danger that at some point too many

interests have to be mentioned, that there are too

many of these principles are a

joint effort between my colleague,

parliamentary group leader in the AFD parliamentary group in the

Brandenburg state parliament, Dr Alexander

Gauland, and

me. Alexander Gauland will present

these five basic demands

these five principles at the same time at the

big AFD demo in machdeburg Read aloud

dear

friends EBO will be announced We have

vowed that we will do this together

First

principle Germany is not

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negotiable Our state Our nation

is not a product of chance It is the work of

so many

generations With pride We look back

on a rich culture civil

and political freedom

and prosperity we help many countries

in the world but one thing we will not

do is give our country and our nation out of our

hands Germany is our country

this

founding phase was

chaotic extremely basic democratic in individual federal states with

rapidly changing chairmen and so

on In the end,

personalities

emerged everywhere who knew a little better than

others, which political

barrel was actually being offered here.

My name is GZ kubitsek, I am a

publisher and editor. You have to

know that you were waiting for the AFD,

there were x attempts to found something similar,

these attempts all came from

the right, um, that didn't work, it

had to come from the center, but when it

was there it was clear that it was something that

a lot of people were waiting for, as the

CDU, which came from the center, was close to

liberal conservatives The party leadership

surrounded itself with people like Hans-Olaf

Henkel, the former federal

president of the Federal Foundation of

German Industry,

with Professor Stabatzi, with others who were

very decidedly,

um, market-economy,

um, liberal and not at all interested in

the core themes of the AFD that

had already crystallized

wanted to represent the program at that moment, Höcke

and others realized that there had to be some

kind of revolt in this revolutionary

party, so to speak, in

the palace it had to lead to the palace revolution

because it was said that these people would

not be able to embody and

represent what this was The country

actually doesn't need a

national liberal FDP or anything like that,

it needs a fundamental opposition

to the entire bloc of

old parties and this cynical policy

towards its own people.

I can't describe this policy any other way,

it's pure cynicism, this cynical

policy towards its own, this cynical

policy towards your own people, it's been

going on for decades and it's like that

and it's so important that you

take it home with you, that you explain it again and again to your

friends, to your relatives in your

family at your place of work

and to always

make it clear that it's social

Talking about justice, they are not

parties of social justice, the

only party of social

justice for us Germans is

the

AFD

AFD AFD

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dieut resolution is the

founding document of the wing of

this movement, which was headed by the

three

state chairmen of brandenur at the time

Andreaswiz from Saxony-Anhalt andre

Pockenburg and from Thuringia

took the lead in Börn Höcke

and the founding of the wing and the

formulation of the Erfurt resolution

or which was announced at the party conference

at the time is a

reaction to attacks that the

liberal-conservative federal leadership of the AFD

on

these

national conservatives in principle

established regional associations

and well then came several serious

crises, the

euro rescue crisis, which was certainly

the most decisive at the time

and it

obviously also prepared the breeding ground

for me to be able to found a new party

at that time and had an issue

with which you were significantly above

this

12%. landed in the usual way when a

new company was founded, yes and

I mean, but even back then,

other important parts of the program also

played a role in the AFD's program - energy policy,

for example, I have already

mentioned, but

migration policy issues

also played a role back then I

also remember a dispute with

Bernt Lucke, for example, who

later left the party because of this

and I am of the opinion

that overall it was of course a

mixture that was quite attractive for East German voters

who are not very party-affiliated

and so on

and it was clear that it can't be,

that's not enough, that's not the

catch basin that this broad protest

needs, which is now

en pida as a symptom, so to speak, and then

through this refugee drama in

2015, basically something like a real

boost

for the party also brought

there thematically where

there is a real gap in representation among all parties

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he is the Thuringian state leader of the

Alternative for Germany. Yesterday several of their voters gathered on the

Erfurt Cathedral Square and

are

dissatisfied with the politics where

Björn Höcke BN Höcke wants to go Björn höcke

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but

it's and that's

not how they are like the young

alternatives I was a teacher at DAH for 15 years,

I always have a lot to do with young people,

myself the father of four children who are

now the same age as the

young people behind us stand I

have a heart for the youth

and alternatively

see

us

off for the one who is now coming to the stage

we

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of course it's a special honor for me

to speak in front of him and when I

look around here now

I see him One or two of you who

were there in 2015 can

remember back in 2015, when the borders

were not closed against law and

order, when the borders were not

defended, we

stood here and the politicians

finally made a policy for their own people

and the amtsk church was

deformed by the colorful spirit of the times, she did something,

she simply delit the illuminated cathedral,

she had the lamps turned

off and what did we

do? we simply

took out our flashlights and

lit up the cathedral, the airft cathedral was so beautiful

throughout its entire history never

illuminated, dear friends, a great

memory

of this is for Pat and that's why they wo

n't let us down, we stand

upright, we go

into the future freely and self-determined and sovereign

and we will do this here from 2024

in Thuringia in Brandenburg and in things

for our German brothers in the

other federal states

stand together here as an example inde

I live in Turkey I live

our beloved German fatherland I

Besides that would be Europe I thank

you, unfortunately politics is always lacking in

credibility and

our problem was of course

this interest in a new political

force that we could not satisfy

in parliament because we simply couldn't

find a majority for the

position of our voters, so logically

we had to fight for these majorities

and that of course doesn't make any

sense against the political opponents in

the state parliament, but it makes sense that

this position should be conveyed to the outside world

Population that means the

parliamentary foothold is

essential but Höcke was of course

already clear back then that not

only a political change can be brought about

or can be brought about

if you only rely on the

parliamentary legislative

level of change, you also need

a multi-part work strategy,

you need a work mosaic and In

this mosaic, the party is an

important building block, an oversized building block,

but not the only

building block and I think we have been

around long enough that we can see each other here in

Dresden again, exactly in the

right place, right now when we

need it, just before the really

historic election day on

September 26th, I would like to warmly welcome you welcome to the

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stage in advance or later watch this

video

and there is no moral obligation for us Germans in the 21st

century to

self-dissolve. There

is no moral obligation to turn this country

back on its feet.

There is a moral obligation This

country's duty is to preserve our beloved Germany

as a homeland for our children and grandchildren,

that and nothing else is

our moral duty

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make Germany beautiful again, let's make

Germany popular again, let's make

Germany free again,

let's make Germany great again,

that's why we work together today in the

next weeks and months and years

and if it takes decades then

it takes decades we will

never give up this fight, we argue, we

fight and in the end we will win

because we are the righteous, because we

are the morally better ones and because we are with

a healthy love for our homeland

long live Saxony long live our

German fatherland long live the true

Europe I thank

you [applause] at hö komm several things come

together, the first is that he

has a compass in terms of his worldview and

he simply knows about it what the

core of the

conviction of such a party should

look like. The second thing is that he is the

right man to do it, he has the courage,

this inner independence, he has

anchors beyond the party, so to speak, he does

n't depend on

party politics, but he uses this

Means

effectively and if then correctly and completely

and he does this with iron discipline and

with an incredible

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workload, the third is he finds

potential in Thuringia that in the

best case does not exist at all and there is this in the east

in other federal states there

but are not linked in the same way, so to speak,

with the höcke type, the

Thuringian Way, which Björn höcke

symbolizes, is of course the way

to be an alternative and that has consequences,

that is, close to the people, close

to the people and, above all, oriented towards

what people expect and have hope

in you and not

based on what your political opponent, whether

in your own camp or in the other camp,

expects of you well the Thuringian Way is

not so much oriented towards the

formal yes, that means

that the usual things happen when you are

elected to parliament, that the

focus of political activity is in the

Parliament obviously doesn't do that for us,

because we are simply

forced to do so, because in Parliament

we are ultimately prevented from really doing politics by the

exclusionary mechanisms

of established politics,

which

means that he can with these percentages

behind him and with this continuous

challenge from the old parties who

somehow want to secure their power and

who now

have to do it with balancing exercises that almost

lead to a hernia,

um he can actually make things clear about

this election of this

FDP man as Prime Minister, which

was then, I think, for a day and a half or two,

yes, that's just how it is in this

constellation and with

this refreshing cheek, I must say,

only possible in Thuringia. A

completely legal process that has

distorted something beyond recognition,

namely the

old parties' hold on power, the lack of sovereignty of a

federal state that is suddenly being reprimanded from Berlin

and

the threat potential from

all parties collapses on one of their own, who became Prime Minister like

a virgin gave birth to a child

and suddenly

became a parier, yes, and these things

are all

linked to Böck's suitability for

such moments, ladies and

gentlemen, I give them Number of

votes cast announced

ballot papers cast 90 valid ballot papers 90

abstentions one on the election proposal of the

DIE LINKE faction of the SPD Alliance

90 the Greens printed matter

7204 voted for MP Bodo rammelo

44 votes election proposal of the

AFD parliamentary group in printed matter

7-240 Mr. Christop Kinderfather zero

votes Election proposal of the

FDP parliamentary group Printed matter

7-242 MP Thomas Kemmerich 45 J

votes Thomas so we have the

result that you can notice that I also

ask Mr. MP Kemmerich

accept the election as

Prime Minister I had

the privilege of

taking part in a parliamentary group meeting at the time

we had per Election round uh always

requested an interruption and before this

third round of voting there was also a

short time uh uh at the called

group meeting and Pan höcke

said the words we can now

elect our candidate Mr. Kinderfather

or we can write history

my name is Robert Teske I've been

Björn Höcke's office manager since 2019 and

have been at his side every day since then, sometimes

depending on the day, which

includes my area of ​​responsibility, but

in general it's

scheduling, planning citizen

dialogues,

election campaign appearances, networking,

actually speaking to the press about legal history, and talking to the

press is part of it

great, well, I just plan the whole

thing around it, so the

agreement with the police, he has had

personal security for a few years now, I do that too, so

that he is actually relatively

unmolested, he concentrates on

his job is to arrive, give a speech, talk

to people, come and then

leave again so that everything

runs smoothly and functions

Politician within

the party for whom I

can work with conviction and I don't

think I could work for any other

politician. A party that entered the

state parliament with a lot of noise in the state elections.

During the course of the evening it looked several times

as if they hadn't actually

made it in We also just

saw that the AFD parliamentary group chairman

congratulated Mr. Höcke and even

though the election is secret, Höcke

has been thinking politically for as long as I have known him.

There is an intensive correspondence

between the two of us and also a real

correspondence because the

emails weren't there at the time So our

form was where we exchange ideas about fundamental

political questions, but

also always about questions of organization and

participation.

There was nothing and all these

small parties that existed, from the

League of Free Citizens to the Republicans

to the Shield Party to Freedom, as it was

called back then and so on and so

forth with them it was

clear to all of us that it

would never be able to go beyond a kind of splinter claim

because the stigma of

being right-wing was immediately given

to these parties. One party would

need a laff phase in which it

was ambiguously indifferent not

stigmatized, basically built by

people who you could

n't just put this label on

until they are so stable and strong

that you can't necessarily throw them

off the field anymore. The

Prime Minister of the Free State of

Thuringia is very pleased with our offers of talks

to the CDU and to the FDP were

rejected and then it

ultimately came to the constellation

that we said we have

an independent candidate that we would

send into the race and in the end I

think it came to this that

Mr. Kemmerich said in the third

round of voting

He would then be available for the ominous third round of voting,

perhaps to say

that there was of course a certain

risk, which of course assumed

that the relatively new AFD faction

existed and had only been around for

a few months, I think that's in

February 2020 then

they have to stand up again so they

all had to

vote together, we did that and

that's why we were able to land this cow.

We had in the

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run-up that our hand was stretched out

towards the CDU towards the FDP, that was

also back then The press has been effective börn

Höcker has actually

put his own position up for discussion and has

said that we renounce any

claim to ministerial office, we

are willing to support an independent

candidate, we would

even have been willing to support candidates from the

To support the CDU

to establish a kind of expert government, the main thing is that

we keep our election promise, which

I think the CDU also made at the time,

namely to replace red-red-green [applause] [music] [applause

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h has nothing of the gambler about

him but he has something of

a brave man about him who knows that

the party is not his purpose Life

is just the

means, his purpose in life is completely

different than saving

Germany, let's say the

political goal, that's also the purpose

for which he does it, but the means

could also be something other than a

party, which means he doesn't complain

For better or for worse

in one seat and somehow

catapulted himself from nothing to a

mandate or a monthly salary or

something like that, none of which was

necessary

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I was 14 back in the

early phase of the company's founding in 2013 Relatively

little contact with him because we

had actually discussed everything, so there was

no new development, a bit of SAR

toes or anything like that, but that wasn't all

that important. He concentrated a lot on being a

teacher, his teaching job,

he was a teacher and focused on the

office of principal prepared through

additional courses in moderation, leadership from

a colleague,

things like that, yes, and really a

very good, very popular young teacher

who also definitely had what it takes to be a headmaster

and then at

some point he

decided to take this step into

politics because he had this

recognized potential and because

it wasn't disreputable in this early phase to

join the AFD, so

teachers could do that without that because it

was new to SAS and so on, it was

a bit CDU but different and so

on, it was somehow all conceivable

and in During this early phase I

once

visited Coincidence, I was actually in his

government, I even spent the night with him

with one of my children at the time when he was

very small and then we

talked about what potential there

actually is in this party. I

was more skeptical than he was

because I was looking at this leadership staff

looked at it and said

it couldn't happen among them, but it was clear six

months and three quarters of a year

later that the

base was

flocking in and wanted something different than

what Lucke and others actually

had in mind

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such a wonderful good morning to everyone,

that was the order of the day has

been sent to you then I'll hand it back over to

Torben on the point of plenary preparation

yes yes, thank you very much plar preparation

as

usual the usual

procedure start chronologically

with the current hour this

afternoon

the first current hour this

afternoon comes from the on the topic of

opportunities for participation in

wind power generation what you now

You said exactly the reasoning that torm

just read out

gives me the feeling that of course

unnecessary bureaucracy is being

created again, so this

categorization alone suggests that

a system should be introduced that

is extremely differentiated and therefore of

course requires a lot of administrative effort

in the In

principle, I don't like billing and

it's not a huge

improvement compared to my

colleagues from other federal states, which is

what I hear from my police officers

who accompany me in Thuringia

in many areas and that

can also be argued

rationally discuss it so

please

vote and then we would

vote on who is in favor of us

not agreeing to the transfer of the matter

wi

now thank you votes against or who is in

favor of us

rejecting it abstain from voting

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also or 33 also

committee of inquiry 74 possible

Misconduct and so on. Advice on

the oral report on the status

of the proceedings. No

speech has been registered for this. I can do it quite

well, Tom. Then I'll summarize very briefly,

as I said, that the letter on the situation

at the meeting between

March 13th and March 15th, so there are several

We will still discuss the gatherings of the farmers' demonstration and various other things.

We have,

um, at 9 a.m. from 9 a.m. to 8

p.m. Yes, we will probably have the farmers' demonstration,

then of course we have

strategically tapped into groups of voters little by little,

that is to say at the beginning

Because of our

new position, we weren't in a position to

specifically address groups of voters. We did

n't really have to figure out how to

do it. Well, that's from 2016 onwards,

I would say, after the AFD's migration policy was the big

programmatic label

We also

opened up other groups of voters that this worked,

for example, especially in the

area of ​​energy policy with the

opponents of wind power here in Thuringia,

you can easily foresee this,

but then also in the area of ​​local politics

where people now say it's actually

so boring No

one is interested in the local politics of

a new company, but that

wasn't right because we

addressed topics that people

here were really interested in, such as the

road registration contributions, yes and

uh, we

pushed the established politics ahead of us to a certain extent

and But on the other hand, we

also looked for contact with

the representation of interests among normal

people and

found them accordingly and were able to bind them to

us because we noticed that this

is a force that, in my opinion, is also correct, the

ampelitrich reduction in subsidies is

about the agricultural donkey the farmers'

protests start on Monday in

Berlin nationwide

a large-scale restriction of

traffic is expected on Monday in Stuttgart all over the country

Society creates so we see

exclusively rotten

tomatoes that and so it went on and on, little by little.

W

im they gave us beer for a

bus, oh well, so long ago

they said that's how

totalitarianism was organized

at that time, it was all the political

factions of the state parliament informed fre

thank you I asked for it personally

yes then I tried to

get in touch I really regret that

with the FDP who had

actually agreed to Kemmerig

he was there but unfortunately not to

speak but good that was in the crowd

so party with 4 % also good,

yes what I see now is a larger

delegation from the AFD

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that is the bare

hearing aid test is a larger

delegation from the AFD and since we

are democrats, regardless of whether we have sympathy or not,

we want to do it so that all elected

parties have the same platform

I would say it is the way it is and that's

fine too, if someone from the AFD

wants to appear here,

thank you very much, dear lutüttig,

welcome also in my name, dear

farmers, dear freight forwarders, dear

craftsmen, dear liberating citizens,

it's nice that you showed up in so many numbers

You're very

welcome [music] I'm giving an impromptu speech,

so I haven't prepared a speech, you can see that I'm

sorry, but of

course

my thoughts are with the farmers, my

thoughts are with the craftsmen and

the freight forwarders, we're

thinking a lot about how things can get better could and

we have proposed solutions for the

problems in the country and it's clear that even

small changes won't do it.

This country is deep in a mess.

This country is about to be completely

driven into the wall. This

country basically needs to

get things going again

Of course it was at the cake stand,

to be honest, it was very tasty, I hope

you all have the opportunity

to try it afterwards, so welcome to the evening

of the Parliamentary Evening, here's a kich

for the FDP, Mr. Bühe for the CDU, here

for the AFD and here's what's important

For me, I want to get out of the

small small and I also believe that the

lack or the the the the the also the

feedback that Mr. President

Lobstin speaks in his opening speech

that people no longer come to such poor people is because the cause is

no longer

discussed It's

more fundamentally discussed,

but rather that you get lost in the little things.

We have to get to the causes

and move away from a policy that

ultimately only legislates to

fight symptoms

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I think B höcke is also so polarizing

because of what he says

is found to be authentic both by the

opponent and by one's own people,

that is, when Höcke appears, when Höcke

gives a speech and when Höcke says things

and formulates things that

go to the root of things and are radical in the

literal sense, then the opponent is afraid

that is serious and his own

people know that he is serious and that

Polar but of

course that also drives people forward because they don't

hear the usual politicians' chatter

because they don't see the constant

questioning in front of themselves.

Suddenly they see the point A man who didn't have to

go into politics,

could have remained a teacher,

led a successful life, started a

family with many people, but

he went into politics because he was

suffering from the circumstances and

that is taken away from him

Well, I'm

probably over-skeptical about it, I blame them for

any mess

because they know that they do

n't actually have any real arguments against us

and and because the goal set is

to do it, that's just the way it is and

they won't play horse games play

they are probably already

prepared

for it% none that that's really so

if you think about how they're going to work,

I've been thinking for a long time about how they're going to do it but

that's exactly what they're going to do, they're going to

try to use the fact check to

fray you and you at home too and

then we'll do it well, but

the political field of agriculture is also important, yes

that will definitely come up, so

beyond I'll just

play it for a moment and it's all the same, it's just

played, it's actually a test, you

can

bite it, maybe so in

any case, don't worry about it and see if you've

forgotten something So as an opener

I would of course no, we'll just do it

now, we'll do 10

minutes and then we'll take a 5 minute

break where we'll recap it then

we'll do the next block and so

on, yes the protagonists do

n't have anything to write or anything like that You

have a table in front of you so

definitely something with a

place and of course very important that

you talk under your notes

then take five notepads with you and

then you can also use the European program

if with this change of history I

would like important information I'll

take a look with me, e.g. we'll take another look

at the table. Welcome to

World TV. There are only a few weeks left

until the European elections and just under

half a year until the state elections in

Thuringia. Here today the

two men are facing each other live, opposite their

parties Thuringia is

currently in first place in the polls and Z welcomes BN

höckel, the parliamentary group leader and

top candidate of the Thuringia AFD, a

man who the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

classifies as a right-wing extremist and his

regional association is proven to be

right-wing extremist. The introduction

had to be there, but I'm

still very happy that I'm here today

When he sits there, he represents the

interests of his voters and his

supporters then he knows that

this studio reality is not the reality,

but that the reality

takes place where the people at home see what

the other millions of Germans

have put forward, highly qualified young people, and the people

want it In the meantime,

convince yourself and accordingly you go to

meet him on site and find out

that what is written about him in the media

as portrayed in the media is

simply not true,

but that he is a very down-to-earth, people-

oriented politician and a

fundamentally likeable person, yes

my name is Daniel haselow, I am a

member of the state board of the AFD

Thuringia. I started to really get involved with the AFD in

2017

and in 2019 I had a very

drastic experience for me when my

then six-year-old boy went to the

playground and

told me that he didn't see anyone

I found that I also heard a lot of children's voices when I was playing

and I went to the playground with him

and

noticed that none of the children who

were there spoke German.

Other politicians make the mistake of

sitting in the studio and

trying to please the journalists or

not Maybe you

want to lure out a clapper from the clapping audience and

that's not what börn höcke thinks

börn höcke is based in Thuringia

he is a community in Thuringia

and a lot of other things come from that

means he knows the bastion has to be in place

before you can reach out, so I

like I said, I've been accompanying him for

a few years now, I've been through one

or two pressure situations,

be it attacks

from outside or

attacks from within the party,

but I think we've all had something like this year

and, above all,

I think he still has it

Don't have to go through a

top candidate in court Jörn Höcke

is said to have used a slogan of the SA

from the Nazi era that is now banned. Now

the trial against the Thuringian AFD in

Halle has won, which is why I

invite you to ask why you are

here today, never again, it is right is

now never again is

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en there is

nullification of this idiom Fear

no expertise has

been presented so far yes it is just that there

are only

different contexts in which the

idiom is said to have been used

and the The

public prosecutor said well,

then it's just as we say, yes,

that's

not up to the level of taking

criminal evidence. On

this basis,

I don't think that's a

bad thing because we

already know our sanctification We

don't know where they are

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exactly here, we swam.

D remembers

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know we were accused of taking part in a

criminal protest

The

lawyers also said a lot of applications

were submitted, there were a lot of

interruptions, completely normal in

a negotiation like this and we'll see

until the next few days it continues

okay, how's he doing, yes, pmhöcke is in a good mood,

no, I lied,

yes, what says you're the stupidest that's

that's difficult what do you think is

really going on yes I think it's

really not going well

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then exactly

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tomorrow

morning tomorrow

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bye in the name of the German people,

the following verdict is issued:

the defendant is guilty and is sentenced to

130 daily rates starting at €100.

The court sees it as

proven that the defendant

intentionally and with full knowledge of the

criminal liability and we are finally reporting

from the court in Halle an der Sale

the court verdict has just come out 13,000 € that's how

much B höcke now has to pay the fine

our reporter Linus Meer is on site

Linus what's new

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joke

or interesting reason

I don't have any reason at all I

said yes, you have the feeling that you have

no

idea, yes, I wouldn't say anything more now,

so put in the wirision, you're

sure to say he asks

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much, thank you for the effort,

exactly ble da a se thank you

t thank you,

I think Things can't go well in a situation like this

when you are put on trial for

confessing that you want to give everything for your country

and

the judiciary has now gone so far as to

want to punish people up to a prison sentence, which

was always done before the trials again

played through the media the ban on the AfD and

of course also that

PN höcke

would lose his right to stand as a candidate, accordingly we

would be lost as the Z candidate.

My personal opinion is that this is

exactly what these

processes are aimed at through

several processes at some point the punishment would be

so high that he

could be deprived of his right to vote and that

would of course be a completely new scandal in

German political history. Yes,

I think he has

already acquired that he

always emphasizes that

I think in situations

where he is in court or when he

is out and about as a politician, then he is a

politician and he can fully

focus on it at home

Family where he

can completely leave this sphere, one has to say it very clearly, so to

be dismissed in

court as to be

marked as a convicted criminal

for such a trifle

for such an

everyday sentence that it doesn't leave you

without a trace ne

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I am GLB his

main concern is

to remain true to himself despite this polarization that he causes among opponents and his supporters,

because someone like him who has been in such a pressure situation for

so many years now is always in such a

pressure situation

This roller coaster ride has

slipped from one extreme to the next extreme, of course, it

is also driven from outside, be it

through attacks from the

press, or attacks from the judiciary,

sometimes within the party, although

in recent years it

has relaxed somewhat in order to maintain its line

and and and his way to fulfill his vision that

he has, maybe

every second Thuringian thinks that he

knows Höge personally because he has held so many

citizen dialogues in

overcrowded inns, smaller larger

half halls and so on. That's

really what almost every second person thinks I

've already seen him, I

shook his hand, I took a selfie with him,

I put Ken

on the

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dear friends, yes, what a greeting, I did

n't do F SP,

thank you very much for the

nice welcome and welcome to

my name too here to the citizen dialogue of the

state parliament faction in kürer Land herft

welcome to the side of the good guys

who are on the side of the alleged

democracy no Germany is

in the year 2024 and I say that very

emphatically at this point, especially in the

direction of the foreign

camera teams Germany is In

2024 there will no longer be a functioning democracy,

the government says you have been in

government for years

and the

cartel parties have been in

government for decades. You would have

every opportunity at the levers of

power to make good politics for Germany

if there were good politics for

Germany and if our

Germany wasn't on the verge of collapse

then there wouldn't be the AFD, it just doesn't make

good politics and then I can go

back to

that being the

vision

concept that's in now but what's on everyone's lips is

this smear campaign or what does it mean

now I mean that was also in His

book has already described

remigration, remigration is right

and also important for us because the boat

is full in Germany, we are full,

we are a people who are happy to

take in migrants, we are always

happy to help, but when the amount is full

and we are Then we can't

help anymore because it's simply no

longer possible. Everyone who

can still think clearly has now understood that, that's

the way it is, it has nothing to do with science

or anything. We have to protect ourselves now, we

have to protect our economy,

we have to protect our country

otherwise we will completely lose our

identity here and every

other country in the world would do the same thing,

but the other countries don't have

a history like us and are

therefore not always as attached to it

and that is the problem we

have as Germans That's all it's like,

they're talking about the story, what's the

difference between the hock and the

died and the one I'm in?

no interviews, just

a question, what's the difference between you and the

party?

Oh, you know, you're doing it.

Therapy continues like that, where is it

now here we're talking about

the parties, other parties

teaching themselves to enter into a coalition with them,

do they think that they

can really become prime minister I think the

T is realistic in ting we have the

possibility we are not the one after

Merkel that it can go even further away

but it is actually a

disaster has the

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do well

steefan okay

thank you lau

present in his federal state

The second thing is that everyone

recognizes him when you go hiking with him,

when you go somewhere with him, there is

no one who doesn't

recognize him and what's interesting is that

in the provinces in the small towns

in the flat countryside there

are always expressions of sympathy when you

recognize him and That's just where to

use the record term that woke Germany lives

can be the opposite, the big

find that B Höcke has is that he has a

retreat in Thuringia

with a really closed

regional association that he has behind him

united does not have an authoritarian

leadership style, I can say that he

tries to take the people with him,

even if it is sometimes very difficult.

Certainly in one or two

conflict situations, I think we can

say as the Thuringian AFD that we

are one of the most stable state associations within The AFD Höcke,

together with Stean Möller, is the

longest-serving state chairman, the longest-

serving parliamentary group chairman, I believe of

the

entire party and I think that

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was very important for him or

was one of the main reasons why

political struggle

was able to get through in the last few years because he He

always knew he had a

regional association, he has one of these here, such

a retreat space

that stands behind him and I

think that has a lot to do with

his leadership style and his way of

approaching. Hello, hello,

very good,

I am

firmly convinced that I will make history tomorrow The East makes the

East will mean the turning point for all of

Germany. They can throw

as many sticks between our legs.

The people out there are

not stupid. They are in love with democracy.

They are in love with freedom and they have had

enough of it. Let's

get our dear friends us this country

back our home Thuring is live

our German fatherland is live the

true Europe I thank

you level actually there is a line we

want an activating basic income

is probably no coincidence that

these processes are being brought up in this important

election year by

illegal ones of course that is

natural Remigration, that is, there must be

a clear wage gap, so the

wage gap requirement must be adhered to,

so remigration is something that

happens every day. We talk

a lot about skilled workers, the

old parties really also

undemocratically perceive their role as the fourth

power in the state,

but of course There are people who do

n't have a residence permit and I

think we have to make regular schools more

attractive. I see something similar in

the USA. Donald Trump is also on

trial there and that doesn't correspond to the

democratic culture if you try to

permanently keep the strongest force in a

country away from government responsibility

The issue of migration is

of course one of the most important issues in

Germany if we don't solve the problem

then there will be no good future

for Germany and will be

bridled. I am

the leading candidate by far the strongest

force here in Thuringia and I have the

feeling that they will be with me

We can't slow down processes

and we have a big

problem with large

magazines like Spiegel, for example, receiving millions

donated by foreign investors.

They are also being slowed down and

their development is being

hindered and I think that's what it's all about

for me The

whole thing is somehow a political

intrigue, we as the opposition in

Germany are being fought very hard, even with

unfair means and they

are subject to deportation in quotation marks and

of course they have to leave our country,

that is quite consistent

because on the one hand you don't

need a lot of

justification To explain why

we have a Christian tradition that of course

continues to have an impact even among the atheists in Thuringia. That means, above

all, that we, and I'm saying this

now as a father who has four children

and one of my children is also

in regular school, are doing this right now

Secondary school leaving certificate and I have received many

reports from my son about

how it works at school and

what is generally complained about by the students

at mainstream schools is a kind of

cerebralization. Yes, a mainstream school

should not be a pain in the secondary school but

should also be in the in the The aim of the training is

to train students there who

in the future will, above all,

also

learn classic trades, so that means

reactivating handicraft lessons, reactivating electrical engineering,

reactivating metal technology, so

again really with with with hand with

hand her heart and

with hand and heart practical lessons

what does that mean Conversely, for the

high school, to curb the academization craze,

what plan do they have for the high school?

The high school has to

do a propedeutic education, a scientific education, yes, that's

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K was with him at events where

other speakers were

speaking. There was always some sort of

murmuring and crumbled and a little

toasted and drinking beer in the

background, yes, and everyone still had something to

do or

something and then Höcke came on stage and

it wasn't an event that

was particularly organized for him or anything like that, he was just

there as a guest and political guest and so on

three into the microphone and then

you can hear a pin drop, it's

as if

people are aligning themselves with him,

but of course you also have to recognize that

he is under pressure to perform in the

sense that he is of course for his

own People m yes is the chosen

politician who can change this country

and is declared the devil for his enemies,

so of course he no

longer leads a relaxed life in any way,

so he is really

straddled between these two poles, on the

one hand there is an insane

hope on his person or

concentrates on his person

on what he can travel, first for

Thuringia maybe then for more on the

other hand, it's not for nothing that he has

personal protection and a big limousine to

drive

because people really

think he's the political devil because they

associate bad images with it, i.e.

historical images, and because they think

that it can be prevented under all circumstances.

On my behalf, you are talking about

the big picture in this way

not

just on this or that adjustment screw like

many other politicians do who

have their niche topics and

then serve these niche topics passionately,

but he has the big picture

in mind and he knows, for example,

that the economy has a place to

take, but the economy is

not over for its own sake but the

economy also has to

serve the community

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and höcke has created this unique

combination between social

motives between social

interests in German,

between material questions on the

one hand and on the other on the other hand,

between questions of identity politics,

between questions of patriotism,

questions of who is us, who belongs to us,

maybe who doesn't belong to us

and how can we combine how

can we think about them constructively together

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so when we when we talk about politics At

the level we talk about politicians

who are at the top for their own reasons,

we shouldn't talk about

feelings

that are not in the right place in that place. Um he

has taken on this task.

He is surrounded by

good

people

and

knows how to endure how he regenerates knows

that when he regenerates others

continue to work and he in turn

finds things that have turned out well

because his employees who

have learned this for 10 years

know what they are doing

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tomorrow Essen starts today the federal

government the AFD appears to be closed to the outside world

wants to show unity in front of the important

Eastern Wahen after the

European elections the AFD wants to be

closed this weekend Essen the

big noise remains the AFD

outwardly appears to be anxious for consensus for a long time

For years, the party has been fighting

internally over professionalism

and it's not a good picture ABG Höe

can leave this party alone,

it seems to be completely different, his

Thuringian AFD is one of the

strongest forces in front of the CDU and yes, a

wonderful good day in the

gugerhalle,

I beat the fully qualified lawyer dr Anna

Rat

in front of dr Anna Rat also from him Brau I

alerted yes oh yes and please

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I yes and we now warmly welcome you

from our studio I am

pleased that we are the state chairman of the

AFD in Thuringia and the top candidate for

the state elections here now welcome,

welcome, yes, it's nice to be with you

and it's nice to have a good time

to live again after 2015, but in the significantly

different atmosphere than back then, it's

definitely not that good.

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Yes, dear friends, two great proposals to

which we can agree to both and

I have spoken, he is of my

opinion that we should vote on these motions together,

not a separate

vote, these are two motions that are

complementary, that belong together and

that send

a sign of

unity and unity at the end of this great party conference,

which is why I am motioning for a joint

vote

Thank you very much Thank you very much

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On the one hand, of course, we have become

more professional on many

levels. Yes, the top performers in

our party have increased many times over. Back

then, in

2013 and 2014, there were very, very few

people Yes, the ability to work in a team among the

members has increased to an enormous

extent. Of course,

an identification figure

like BN Höcker plays a big role. Yes,

you have to say that too. Yes, that's

always my job. I'm

actually at the

citizen dialogues because People are

only really pushing for him to some extent

and recently a lady said to him

they are my new Messiah, they are

my new Jesus Christ and

then I had to explain to her and yes he

is always a bit

uh, well I was really touched at that

moment because I don't know how

someone who sees you as a new

highiland deals with it, so I imagine that's

very strange and that's how

he reacts that, um,

um, that's a bit blasphemous,

that's [ __ ] not the one who has

risen or is the new

savior so we all have to

stay on the carpet a little bit, he

is also just a person

with a special gift but not

equal to God

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that is of course also something for me,

especially someone like that being in the public eye

and doing or experiencing things with him that go

far beyond political

work,

I don't know whether I

should dust it off, but

internally I'm assuming it's too hot,

I'll say it simply and you do

n't cut or cut the fact that Björn höcke

was relatively soon after he

became a parliamentarian and was not only a

family man and teacher and a

political head, but that he

went to Schnellroda first

after these state elections is

certainly also because he had an

ideological orientation had

already before he came into office,

yes, I think the main

difference is that we don't now define ourselves

through

some

partial programmatics among people

and promote ourselves,

but rather we are a party that

uniquely stands for a few basic questions

and the answers they provide On the one hand, there

is who we are, who

we want to be and who we don't want to be,

and answering these questions honestly puts us

on a collision course with the

established political media complex

and, on the other

hand, of course brings us the sympathies of the

people who have understood that It's

exactly about these three questions

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that what defines him and and and

I think has also

made him the figure that he is in the eyes of

his enemies

and his supporters is

that there is hardly anyone who is not a

German politician who

can formulate things so clearly and so understandably and the messages he has, the

vision he has for Germany

and can bring to the people how I see

this Höck vision for Thuringia or

maybe even the whole East

from yes it is It may sound

profane now, but it is politics for one's

own people, politics for

the Thuringians for the East Germans for

the

Germans and I think everyone knows what

that means

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all those who have the moral claim to Germany

To preserve living in a

Germany and also to enable the

children to have a home in a country

that not only

Germany is hot but also

Germany, I call on us to

complete the

political walls for Thuringia on September 1st and for

this and WUs what's up Ken we

our

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